[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#937657: Issue with numpy under Python 3.8

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Rebecca,

On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 09:16:17AM +0000, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> I think that just means "numpy hasn't yet been rebuilt for Python 3.8". (In
> Python modules that include a C extension, the .py files are shared but the
> C part is compiled separately for each Python version.)
> 
> As there are ~500 modules requiring such a rebuild
> (https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.8.html), this may take
> some time.  (numpy itself will probably be a source upload, to move 1.17
> from experimental to unstable.)
> 
> For testing, it may be easiest to use an Ubuntu chroot for now.

Its not about testing.  Its the usual build time test.  If I'd do a
source upload of this package it will FTBFS under the current state
of the archive.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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